360 A DECADE OF WORK AT HOME. (1848, 
27th Nov., 1848. 
Wright is up from Texas (with his mother at 
Wethersfield, Connecticut); he will soon be here as 
curator to me, taking Lesquereux’s! place, who has 
been with me a little, but now, as a consequence of 
his visit to Columbus, goes to aid Sullivant, with a 
provision that makes the truly worthy fellow perfectly 
happy. They will do up bryology at a great rate. 
Lesquereux says that the collection and library of Sul- 
livant in muscology are “ magnifique, superbe, the best 
he ever saw.” 
TO GEORGE ENGELMANN. 
January 24, 1849. 
Halstead, I believe, has nearly decided to go on the 
Panama Railroad Survey; I trust to get Wright at- 
tached to the boundary survey. I have a letter from 
Fendler, in which he expressed his willingness to go to 
the Great Salt Lake country, if he can get government 
protection and food, ete. Ina few days I shall write to 
Marcy ; send him the sheets of “ Plant Fendleriane,” 
and make a vigorous application for this aid. No 
doubt I shall get it, I think. But perhaps it might 
be almost as well for Fendler to go over with a party 
of emigrants directly to Mormon City. But probably 
there will be emigrants bound for the same place, 
accompanying the regiment, as near as they go. 
Fendler can do admirably well in that region, if he 
perseveres. But will he not take the gold-fever and 
leave us in the lurch? Will not Living, etc., be very 
dear in Mormon City also? I fear it. I must leave 
much to your discretion. Only if you think Fendler 
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